CANTAB. Abridged for CANTABRIGIAN.
It was transmitted to me by a respectable Cantab for insertion. —Hone's Every-day Book, Vol. I. p. 697.
Should all this be a mystery to our uncollegiate friends, or even to many matriculated Cantabs, we advise them not to attempt to unriddle it.—Harvardiana, Vol. III. p. 39.
CANTABRIGIAN. A student or graduate of the University of Cambridge, Eng. Used also at Cambridge, Mass., of the students and inhabitants.
CANTABRIGICALLY. According to Cambridge.
To speak Cantabrigically.—Bristed's Five Years in an Eng.
Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 28.
CAP. The cap worn by students at the University of Cambridge, Eng., is described by Bristed in the following passage: "You must superadd the academical costume. This consists of a gown, varying in color and ornament according to the wearer's college and rank, but generally black, not unlike an ordinary clerical gown, and a square-topped cap, which fits close to the head like a truncated helmet, while the covered board which forms the crown measures about a foot diagonally across."—Five Years in an Eng. Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 4.
A similar cap is worn at Oxford and at some American colleges on particular occasions.
See OXFORD.
CAP. To uncover the head in reverence or civility.